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yes, js can be used to invade privacy, but... a) that's not its primary use by a long shot. The VAST majority of JS written has nothing to do with tracking / p

• jodrellblank 4y ago
  > “b) we don't need JS to invade your privacy on the web... Does he browse without images turned on too?” He doesn’t really browse the web at all: “””How I use the Internet I am careful in how I connect to the internet. Specifically, I refuse to connect through portals that would require me to identify myself, or to run any nontrivial nonfree Javascript code. I use LibreJS to prevent nonfree Javascript code from running. I am careful in how I use the Internet. I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it. I occasionally also browse unrelated sites using IceCat via Tor. Except for rare cases, I do not identify myself to them. I think that plus Tor plus LibreJS is enough to prevent my browsing from being associated with me. “”” https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html